Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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gout. True enough, say Biochemist George Brooks and Social Psychologist Ernst Mueller, but the one-word diagnosis is far from complete. Those four famous men, along with many others, suffered from swollen, painful joints be cause their blood carried an excess of uric acid, which is a product of hu man metabolism. And the presence of that excess acid may explain their other basic similarities -their energetic and adventurous minds, their urge to ex cel and the high caliber of their achievement...
Outside the Administration, many thought it was time for the brake pedal. Appearing before the Joint Economic Committee, U.C.L.A. Business School Dean Neil H. Jacoby, a member of Dwight Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, argued that proposed 1966 spending by Government, business and consumers was "far in excess of the real productive capacity of the economy. Preventive action is needed now, not after the inflationary process has become established." Arthur Burns, Ike's chief economic adviser, told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce symposium: "While the Government is lecturing the private community on the need for restraints...
...usual manner. He liked it at once, and it is easy to see why. The presentation was crisp and methodical with a numbered list of specific problems and actions. It began by questioning campaign talk about "another Hundred Days" -- a warning which must have inspired Kennedy, embarrassed by rhetorical excess, with confidence in the sobriety of the memorandum's author. It constantly stressed the importance of flexibility. The President's requirements for his personal staff, for example, "cannot be fully understood, or met until they have been experienced." Kennedy moreover, was probably pleased to have a professor get into...
...Flint, the latest and most prodigal of hoke-and-dagger thrillers, is a takeoff on the spoofs that imitate James Bond movies, which already show the strain of excess spoofery. This leaves Flint Director Daniel Mann with little more to do than try the hypothesis that more and more will be funnier and funnier. Instead, the gimmickry congeals...
...best to preclude either extreme. They 1) devised the Electoral College so that wiser heads than the people's would choose the President, and 2) limited Representatives to two-year terms so that the House would be responsive and responsible to the will of the voter. If neither excess is inconceivable today, neither safeguard is wholly necessary or suitable to contemporary America. Last week, as he promised in his State of the Union address, Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to amend the Constitution so as to abolish the Electoral College and give Representatives four-year terms...